Make-Believe Media · the Politics of Film and Television by Parenti, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Political Entertainment

Seeing is Believing Preempting Life

2. Swarthy Hordes and Other Aliens

The Wagon Circle Tonto, Gunga Din, and All That More of the Same—With Some Exceptions Hardliners and “Antiterrorists" Monsters and Galactic Aliens

3. The Media Fight the Red Menace

Witch-Hunts and Stereotypes Rambo and the Reaganite Cinema The Wide Weird World of Sports

4. Make-believe History

Nice Tyrants and Bad Revolutions No Better Than the Textbooks

5. Blue-Collar Blues

Workers from Nowhere Buffoons, Bigots, and Loveable Boys Class and Virtue No-Good Unions Doing It Better

6. Affluent Class and Corporate Brass

Escaping Class Trauma in Soapville The Rise of the “Oil Operas” Benign Bosses and Bad Bosses

7. Superdocs and Shoot-’em-ups

The Magic Medicine Show Bang! Bang! You’re Dead Making It Look “Realistic”

8. Black Images in White Media

Smilin' 'n' Servin' Clean-Cut and Saintly Enter Superhero Two Steps Forward, One-and-a-Half Steps Back Getting Serious

9. Luigi, Tony, and the Family

The Stages of Stereotype Sempre Mafia Spaghetti Benders for Madison Avenue Internalizing the False Image

10. Child Abuse

Zapping Young Minds The Saturday Morning Massacre The Little Consumers

11. Preemption, Profits, and Censors

Retarding Our Capacities The Money Media Product Control

12. The Myth of Cultural Democracy

Giving the People What They Want What Does the Public Want? Pseudorelevance and Pseudochoice Doing It Right

Notes

Chapter 1 Political Entertainment Chapter 2 Swarthy Hordes and Other Aliens Chapter 3 The Media Fight the Red Menace Chapter 4 Make-believe History Chapter 5 Blue-Collar Blues Chapter 6 Affluent Class and Corporate Brass Chapter 7 Superdocs and Shoot-'em-ups Chapter 8 Black Images in White Media Chapter 9 Luigi, Tony, and the Family Chapter 10 Child Abuse Chapter 11 Preemption, Profits, and Censors Chapter 12 The Myth of Cultural Democracy